The Michigan arm of the insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield is asking its employees to donate to the campaign of Gretchen Whitmer, the top-funded Democrat in the race for governor, The Detroit News reported on Wednesday. One of her opponents, who has received nationwide media attention for his left-wing politics…

The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME and previous cases attacking union “fair share” fees, the end of which could devastate organized labor in the U.S.

FiveThirtyEight, a website that apparently still exists, has a deeply depressing story out Tuesday on White House Chief of Staff John Kelly by politics writer Perry Bacon Jr. The piece is essentially a mea culpa, where Bacon admits that he and much of the political media got Kelly all wrong, and that he is Actually…

Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is struggling. She’s dealing with the collapse of a major government contractor, a National Health Service in crisis, Brexit, and the slightly disappointing Channel 4 version of Bake Off. Every aspect of British life seems under threat. Is Britain, our green and…

In an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition on Thursday, Republican Senator Mike Rounds, of South Dakota, was asked what Congress should do about mass shootings after yesterday’s horrific shooting in Parkland, FL.

The Politico today suggests that Democrats may be reluctant to let Bill Clinton campaign for them in the midterms, given the #MeToo movement and the party’s desire to rally women against our sexual predator president. Good!

Yesterday, the New York Times opinion section ran a piece titled “Background Checks Are Not the Answer to Gun Violence,” by John Lott. It is a bad piece. It argues that the “major problem” with the background check system isn’t future murderers who slip through the cracks despite having, for example, domestic violence…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been extremely on one since Mick Mulvaney, a Grimms’ Fairy Tales creature made real, took control of the agency and ground all its actions to a halt. Among other things, it has slowed its investigation of credit reporting agency Equifax; dropped a lawsuit against a…

A few weeks ago, Bloomberg published a damning piece about how the DCI Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm, creates phony echo chambers to help push its clients’ interests. For example, it created a ‘coalition’ of groups to support its campaign against Argentina on behalf of the country’s Wall Street bondholders, who…

Who’s hungry for some more terrible news from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau!!! Reuters reports that the CFPB has “pulled back” from its investigation into the massive Equifax data breach last year, in which hackers accessed information about 143 million Americans.

Remember the proposed Trump administration rule allowing employers to pool and then steal their employees’ tips? Remember how the Department of Labor didn’t release any analyses of exactly how much money employers would pinch from the workers?

A U.K. government analysis leaked to BuzzFeed shows that under every scenario, Britain’s economic growth will be hit by an exit from the European Union, by at least two percent and as much as eight percent over the next 15 years.

Since Mick Mulvaney became the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a weird coup, he has made it clear that he intends to slow the agency’s actions down as much as possible. He requested $0 in funding for the agency, saying he would spend its reserve funds rather than ask for new money. He announced…

On Sunday, conservative commentator Josh Hammer announced he was leaving Online Politics and would be starting a job clerking for Judge James C. Ho of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Hammer is not exactly a prominent conservative writer, but he isn’t entirely obscure, either, having written for Ben Shapiro’s Daily…

One of Britain’s largest government contractors, Carillion, announced bankruptcy on Tuesday, leaving its 20,000 UK employees unsure of their future and causing layoffs at its subcontractor. The company was £1.5 billion in debt. Whoops!

Our large president’s affection for fast food has resurfaced as a topic of conversation, following his physical health assessment, though it was already well-known and oft-documented. According to Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, Trump “had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s…